Is it a little odd I was SUPER attracted to Kevin Kline?

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Sophie's Choice

This movie is a brilliant reminder of how far film has come just over the past few decades. It also wonderfully raises the question of whether all that is for the better. The only thing I didn't care for in the film was the set up. The juxtaposition of drama to loving comedy was too mis-mashed for my taste and made the film that didnt' need to, feel like it was dragging.

Oh but the beauty of these performances. I grew up on older Meryl Streep but nothing compares to her early body of work. Her Sophie gave me chills and impressed me with her commitment to accent and the passion in her eyes. She is without a doubt a divine presence on screen now and forever. What I was most impressed with was Kevin Kline. First because he was kind of a dish back in the day and second because he is really just such a fine actor. His theater credits have long out shown his film roles but watching SC, which is in fact his first film debut, it is impossible to deny how his brilliance translates into any medium.

As much as this is obviously a movie about Sophie and her life, which are fantastic, I fell more in love with Sophie & Nathan's chemistry and Nathan's dangerously magnetic presence than the intended core of the storyline.

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Holy Sleep with the Lights on Batman.

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Paranormal Activity.

So I know this has been out for awhile and I actually saw it on Devil's Night way back before Halloween. But I just have to say it was so mind boggling fantastic that I needed time to digest it. People have said they don't think it is scary. Well they are probably cheaters and found spoiler alerts ahead of time OR they were in fact so scared their eyes were shut the whole time and they just are too lame to admit.

I was freaked right out of my mind. And I LOVED it!!!! This is the problem with the horror genre in modern cinema, there is nothing truly scary out there anymore. Thank goodness Paranormal Activity came around this year to save us all from a mindless, gore/whore fest that is Saw 1000301. In a throwback to B sci-fi horror movies, Hitchcock suspense and the great horror decade that was the last 70's early 80's Paranormal Activity feeds every hunger a good horror buff needs.

Unfortunately I don't want to be one of those spoilers because this is such a rare and brilliant movie that to talk it up more I would fear I might spill some bean(s) that would take away the scary as hell, mind blowing experience I had. Which so wouldn't be fair.

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